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In a career spanning almost 50 years, Lisa Tuttle has proven herself a master of the weird tale, and now this new collection of twelve unsettling stories - some never previously collected - offers readers a chance to discover some of her finest work. In ''Replacements'', a woman adopts a monstrous pet, with unforeseen consequences. In ''Born Dead'', a stillborn child mysteriously continues to grow just like a living one. ''My Pathology'' (whose ending Thomas Tessier has cited as one of the best in the history of horror) explores the sinister results of a couple''s alchemical experiments. And a book lover in ''The Book That Finds You'' has her life changed in strange ways by the discovery of a rare horror book at a second-hand bookshop. In these weird and chilling tales, Tuttle is at her diabolical best. This edition features an introduction by Lisa Kröger, and each story is specially introduced by the author.

In this exclusive short story from the award-winning author of The Mysteries, inexplicable fear of a maze leads to unexpected consequences . . . Amy and Phil are charmed by the Old Vicarage, a beautiful Glastonbury guest house surrounded by peaceful countryside. But when they look from their window and see a group of strange figures performing a ritual dance around a turf-maze, Amy feels far from peaceful. Phil insists on treading the maze, but Amy is gripped by inexplicable fear - fear that turns out to be well-founded. Dark forces are at work, and unbeknownst to them, Amy and Phil''s holiday will be the last time they enjoy happiness together . . .

What if the logic of the world reflected the bizarre logic of the unconscious? Each story in My Pathology explores the insanity just below the surface of normal life, especially the madness that unites and divides the sexes. A woman''s obsession with her younger sister''s nocturnal activities centres uneasily upon the attic of their shared home, where someone or something has built a room-sized nest. A man''s desire to connect with aliens threatens his ability to form human relationships. And in the title story, a modern-day alchemist has enlisted sexuality itself into his quest for the philosopher''s stone, with uncertain consequences for the women who love him. By turns disturbing and compelling, these sixteen multi-faceted tales reprise the career of one of SF''s most emotionally insightful writers. Includes the stories ''Replacements'', ''Honey, I''m Home!'', ''Food Man'', ''Mr Elphinstone''s Hands'', ''Lucy Maria'', ''Where the Stones Grow'', ''White Lady''s Grave'', ''Tir Nan Og'', ''The Dragon''s Bride'', ''Manskin, Womanskin'', ''From Another Country'', ''The Walled Garden'', ''The Extra Hour'', ''In Jealousy'', ''Turning Thirty'' and ''My Pathology''.

Over the past few decades, Lisa Tuttle has quietly established her place as one of today''s very best writers of weird and horror fiction. Her previous collection, The Dead Hours of Night, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, and now she is back with this new volume containing twelve more unsettling tales. In ''Bits and Pieces'', a woman is surprised to find her lover has left behind his foot in her bed, but it''s only the first of many macabre mementoes. ''The Wound'' tells of a platonic friendship between two male coworkers that begins to turn into something very different when one of them notices he has started to bleed. The protagonist of ''The Hungry Hotel'' is contacted years later by an old one-night stand and goes to meet him at a strange hotel, with unforeseen consequences. These and nine other weird and often frightening tales showcase Lisa Tuttle''s unique ability to disturb and unnerve her readers. This collection also includes the rare novella ''The Dragon''s Bride'', newly revised and expanded for this edition, and an introduction by Neil Gaiman, who has called Lisa Tuttle ''the finest practitioner of unsettling fiction writing today''.

''Lisa Tuttle never disappoints'' George R.R. Martin An exclusive short story from the author of THE MYSTERIES and THE SILVER BOUGH. A working wife and mother longs for more time to write, then finds a hidden room where her wish is granted, where she can work undisturbed in a place out of time...

Incisive, moving, and unsettling, Ghosts and Other Lovers should appeal to both fans of the classic ghost story and those seeking bold new psychological fantasy. Includes the James Tiptree Jr Award nominated story ''Food Man''. Award-winning fantasy and horror author Lisa Tuttle''s third short-story collection assembles thirteen of her imaginative inquiries into the nature of ghosts and the people they visit, covering territory from gothic romance to the just plain creepy. Originally published in 2002, this collection includes thirteen ghost stories written in the 1990s and 1980s, including the stories ''In Jealousy'', ''Mr Elphinstone''s Hands'', ''From Another Country'', ''The Walled Garden'', ''Lucy Maria'', ''The Extra Hour'', ''Where the Stones Grow'', ''White Lady''s Grave'', ''Soul Song'', ''Food Man'', ''Manskin, Womanskin'', ''Turning Thirty'' and ''Haunts''

Award-winning author Lisa Tuttle returns with a grippingly sinister tale. When Iain''s friend Nic becomes friendly with Lia, Iain begins to act very strangely. He plants the idea in Lia''s head that her natural mother is a murderer who killed several men, claiming she was possessed by a snake. Soon Lia becomes convinced that she too has a snake inside.

In this brand new story by award-winning author Lisa Tuttle, a girl online finds more than she ever dreamed . . . When Rose moves to America to stay with her grandmother, the internet enables her to keep in touch with her family and play games in multi-user domains. She meets Orson, Olivia and Simon in the ''domain'' of Illyria, where they become people they are not and find a deeper truth in fantasy.

Since 2005, Valancourt Books has unearthed and republished almost 500 lost and neglected works from the 1760s through the 2000s, and now for this long-awaited fourth volume of the acclaimed Valancourt Book of Horror Stories series, the editors of Valancourt Books are proud to present 15 more great horror tales -- all by Valancourt authors -- from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. This volume features five brand new stories that have never appeared elsewhere, two rare foreign stories translated to English for the first time, and eight more scarce and seldom-seen tales. The stories in this volume will take you inside the vivid dreams of a woman who can kill in her sleep; to the set of a reality show where contestants may be transformed into specimens of beauty--or into freak show monsters; to a hotel where guests are besieged by a powerful hurricane--and by something even more terrible and deadly. You will read of the bizarre and macabre adventures of a man seeking a skeleton in 1960s London as a gift for his medical student cousin--and his quest''s shocking outcome. You will learn how a simple grammar mistake can lead to a terrible and untimely end for a traveler in Venice. These are strange, sinister, and scary stories, by turns suspenseful, horrific, and darkly humorous. Featuring a lineup of rarely reprinted classic tales together with new stories destined to become future classics, this collection is a horror anthology like no other.

''By the time it was over I was so thoroughly violated that I needed to scrub my brain with steel wool'' Tor.com In Award-winning author Lisa Tuttle''s first solo novel Sarah is looking for a fresh start and a home of her own, but something is waiting for her in the night . . . When Sarah breaks up with the partner she has shared her home with for the last year, she is determined to make a new start. The house she finds, nestled in the woods just back from the road, seems like the perfect place to do that. Almost from the moment she looks at it, Sarah knows that it should belong to her. But this house has invisible eyes that watch Sarah from the darkness. For the previous owner, Valerie, is keeping a secret: one that involves the house, a ritual . . . and a spirit called back from the grave. ''She brings to the literature a subtlety and power, which, sometimes shading into horror, is a quite distinctive voice demanding to be heard . . . exceptional, very female, art'' Independent on Sunday

''[A] lively, entertaining blend of murder mystery and supernatural adventure'' George R. R. Martin Should you find yourself in need of a discreet investigation, think of Jesperson and Lane . . . For several years Miss Lane was companion, collaborator and friend to the lady known to the Psychical Society only as Miss X - until she discovered that Miss X was actually a fraud. Now Miss Lane works with Mr Jasper Jesperson as a consulting detective, but the cases are not as plentiful as they might be and money is getting tight - until a wife''s concern for her husband''s nocturnal ramblings piques their interest, and mediums begin to disappear all over London. There is only one team with the imagination and intelligence to uncover the nefarious purpose behind the vanished psychics and the somnambulist''s wanderings. Jesperson and Lane: at your service.

THE BIG OLD HOUSE WAS PERFECT FOR SARAH Now that her life with Brian was over, she would have a home of her own. She could begin again. But something was waiting for Sarah in her new house, waiting to welcome her, to make her feel at home. Something was waiting for Sarah in the night with golden eyes that glowed and burned, commanding her obedience, demanding her soul, promising her ... Sarah tried to escape the power, but night after night it drew her back, filling her with screaming horror one moment, and relentless, burning pleasure the next. Sarah tried to escape the house, to fight the evil. But she came back. She will always come back. Because now Sarah is never alone ... This reissue of Lisa Tuttle''s first novel Familiar Spirit (1983) features the classic cover art by Lee MacLeod and a new introduction by Will Errickson.

The second volume of THINKING HORROR: A JOURNAL OF HORROR PHILOSOPHY focuses loosely on the horror boom of the second half of the Twentieth Century and contains the following: THNKHRRR Interview: Steve Rasnic Tem, "The Word in Flesh, or Whenever We''re Opened, We''re Red: A Personal Meditation on Clive Barker''s Books of Blood" by Gemma Files, "An Endless Laceration: The Limit Experience in Horror" by Daniel Pietersen, "The Impossible Literature of Thomas Ligotti, Puppeteer and Eschatologist" by D. P. Watt, THNKHRRR Interview: Lisa Tuttle, "''Your Worst Fear'': Monstrous Feminine(ism) and the Horror Boom of the 1970s" by Andrew P. Williams, "The Grotesque in Flannery O''Connor''s ''A Good Man is Hard to Find'' and ''Good Country People''" by Kristi DeMeester, THNKHRRR Interview: John Skipp, "A Faint Sense of Double Vision" Cinematic Tensions and Transmedial Anxieties in the Fiction of Files/Barringer, Wehunt, Tremblay, Link, and Ballingrud" by Christopher Burke, THNKHRRR Interview: Nick Mamatas, "His Knife, Her Shadow" by John Glover, "Nothing Will Have Happened: Speculation and Horror in the Anthropocene" by David Peak, "Collective Abjection: Social Horror in Stephen King''s It" by Mike Thorn, "''Hello from the Sewers of NYC'': T.E.D. Klein''s ''Children of the Kingdom''" by Michael Cisco, Cover Art by Stephen Wilson

Editor Oliver brings horror home with a collection of haunted house stories by some of the finest writers working in the horror genre, including Joe R. Lansdale, Christopher Priest, Christopher Fowler, Tim Lebbon, and others. Original.

''A strong, poignant, and outright magical tale'' New York Review of Science Fiction In this exclusive short story from critically acclaimed and award-winning author Lisa Tuttle, a woman is haunted by an experience she had as a five-year-old, when she believed she had seen herself with her true love in the future... ''The Walled Garden'' was originally written for Hidden Turnings, a YA fantasy anthology edited by Diana Wynne Jones and was reprinted in Lisa Tuttle''s collection Ghosts and Other Lovers and The Year''s Best Horror and Fantasy, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling.

Fiction 1. 2-Dava by Lisa Tuttle 2. Dissecting the Alien by Gregory Benford 3. The Herple is a Happy Beast, or, "Neighbors are Delicious " by Paul Di Filippo 4. Spark by R.B. Payne 5. That Part of the Brain by John Shirley 6. The Scepter of Nowhere by John C. Wright Non-Fiction 1. "A Conversation with Paul Di Filippo" by K. H. Vaughan 2. "The World of Neil Clarke" by K. H. Vaughan 3. "The Future Event of Global Transcendence" by Aaron J. French 5. "Trans-Beauty: An Interview with Nelli Kowalik" by Leah Jung 6. Horror in a Hundred Stories 7. "A Virtual Fireside Chat with David Brin: Intelligent Aliens and What it Means to be Human" 8. "Introduction to Bizarro" by Bizarro Pulp Press 9. "PKD" by Ted Hand 10. "Hubbard, Parsons, and Scientology" by Mike Lester 11. "World Horror Convention 2015 Wrap-Up" by John Palisano Columns 1. Double X Chromosome: "Metawoman" by Yvonne Navarro 2. "What Makes Not-So-Good Horror...Not So Good" by Michael R. Collings 3. "What the Hell Ever Happened to...T. Chris Martindale" by Robert Morrish 4. "Transhumanism and Video Games" by Richard Dansky 5. Murmurs in the Dark: "Frankenstein Transcendent" by Donald Tyson 6. Gary Braunbeck Column Hellnotes Reviews Hellnotes/Horror World Reviews Film Reviews

Having been taught reading, writing, and a little magic by his owner, Jules the kitten is persuaded by fairies that appear through the television set to return with them to fairyland and help save their captive prince.

Describes and provides illustrations, maps, and plans of eight famous fictional houses featured in "David Copperfield," "Little Women," "Robinson Crusoe," "Alice in Wonderland," "Charlotte''s Web" and other classic stories.

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we have original science fiction by D. Thomas Minton ("The Schrdinger War") and Will McIntosh ("Dry Bite"), along with SF reprints by Lisa Tuttle ("Ragged Claws") and Nina Allan ("Angelus"). Plus, we''re featuring a reprint of the novella "The Secret Sharer" by Robert Silverberg.Plus, we have original fantasy by Seanan McGuire ("Homecoming") and a new Gorlen story by Marc Laidlaw ("Bellweather") and fantasy reprints by Gene Wolfe ("Suzanne Delage") and the first Erm Kaslo tale by Matthew Hughes ("And Then Some").All that, and of course we also have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with io9''s Annalee Newitz and author of THE SHINING GIRLS, Lauren Beukes.

Collaborative response in an artists'' book format to the letters of Anna Matilda Page King to her family (written between 1817 to 1859) from "Retreat", her St. Simons Island, Georgia plantation.

"Something terrible happened to me when I was a little girl..." so begins this extraordinary, International Horror Guild Award-winning tale of abduction, survival and escape from the author Stephen Jones has called "a major force in macabre fiction.""Lisa Tuttle''s stories have a way of lingering long after you''ve read them." - The Good Book Guide"Tuttle is at her best as a short story writer. The power and sheer quality of her work are unmistakable on every page." - Chris Morgan"For those of us who cherish short fiction, Tuttle''s work is a treasure trove, a vast and fearful kingdom in itself." - Thomas Tessier